OXFORD, U.K. — juillet 22, 2024 —

Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, today announced that Teresa Anania has joined the company as Chief Customer Officer (CCO). Anania will play a key role in accelerating Sophos’ customer and partner success initiatives to maximize value of Sophos’ portfolio of cybersecurity solutions and services, including  Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services and endpoint, network, email, and cloud security.

Anania has more than 25 years of experience in leading customer satisfaction and sales growth across public and private sectors, excelling in both direct and indirect sales channels. Joining Sophos from Zendesk, Anania was responsible for the management and development of its global client base of more than 110,000 customers from small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB) to enterprises. During her time at Zendesk, Anania led all post-sales functions, including Professional Services, Customer Support, Customer Service, Customer Success, and Renewals, to deliver top line growth and measurable impact for customers. Anania has extensive experience specializing in scaling post-sales customer engagement for enterprise, commercial, and volume segments, delivering significant Return on Investment (ROI) and driving revenue.

As CCO, Anania will be responsible for developing a stronger customer-centric culture, working together with channel partners and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to deliver a seamless experience for Sophos’ growing customer base of more than 600,000 organizations worldwide. This vision also provides assurance that smaller customers, which are a prime target for attackers, have access to the same innovative security solutions and industry-leading threat intelligence as their larger counterparts, a critical overall mission for Sophos in 2024 and beyond.

“Sophos is in an exciting phase of its business growth, and I am eager to bring my career success building positive customer experiences to the company,” said Anania. “Sophos has a stellar reputation for continually innovating cybersecurity technology and managed security services that help organizations defend their businesses against ransomware, data breaches and other potentially business-ending cyberattacks. I will be working closely with channel partners, MSPs, and the global team, to advocate for Sophos’ customers and their security defenses and to drive value for partners from Sophos’ entire portfolio of solutions and services.”

“The threat landscape is always changing, and organizations need regular, interactive assessments of their overall IT environments to determine how to most efficiently and effectively adapt to defeat active attackers. To help facilitate this, security vendors need to take responsibility to ensure that customer investments in their products and services are providing real value to them, which requires engagement throughout contract lifecycles. This also requires world-class customer experience (CX) for renewals and upgrades to the most relevant and appropriate technologies and services, and an awareness of the full potential already available in existing licenses. The best tool is of little value without the right operation, so these components are critical to properly and consistently defending against modern attacks,” saidJoe Levy, CEO of Sophos. “To provide this pathway, we’ve hired Teresa, who has an impressive track record building post-sales relationships and delivering experiences that increase customer satisfaction and drive topline growth.Her knowledge and expertise will allow us to further put customers at the center of our business, alongside our channel partners and MSPs. Most importantly, Teresa’s new role will help keep our customers as secure as possible, which is always our top priority. We are delighted to welcome Teresa to the Sophos team.”

 

À propos de Sophos

Sophos est un leader mondial de la cybersécurité qui protège 600000organisations à travers le monde grâce à une plateforme optimisée par l’IA et à des services fournis par des experts. Sophos accompagne les entreprises, quel que soit leur niveau de maturité en matière de cybersécurité, et évolue avec elles pour déjouer les cyberattaques. Ses solutions offrent une combinaison optimale entre apprentissage automatique, automatisation et renseignements sur les menaces en temps réel, à laquelle s’ajoute l’expertise humaine de l’équipe Sophos X-Ops, qui travaille en première ligne pour assurer la surveillance, la détection et la réponse aux menaces 24h/24 et 7j/7.
Sophos propose des services managés de détection et de réponse (MDR) de pointe, ainsi qu’un portefeuille complet de technologies de cybersécurité, parmi lesquelles des solutions de sécurité Endpoint, réseau, email et cloud, ainsi que des solutions de détection et de réponse étendues (XDR), de détection et de réponse aux menaces liées à l’identité (ITDR) et de SIEM de nouvelle génération. Associées à des services de conseil spécialisés, ces capacités aident les entreprises à réduire leurs risques de manière proactive et à répondre plus rapidement, tout en bénéficiant de la visibilité et de l’évolutivité nécessaires pour garder une longueur d’avance sur les menaces en constante évolution.
Sophos commercialise ses produits via un écosystème mondial de partenaires, comprenant des fournisseurs de services managés (MSP), des fournisseurs de services de sécurité managés (MSSP), des revendeurs et distributeurs, une marketplace d’intégrations et des partenaires spécialisés dans les cyber risques. Cette stratégie offre aux entreprises la flexibilité nécessaire pour choisir des partenaires de confiance pour protéger leurs opérations.  Le siège de l’entreprise est basé à Oxford, au Royaume-Uni. Plus d’informations sont disponibles sur www.sophos.fr.